I have the same problem. I thought it was my connection problem.

Ditto for me.

Must take turns...

Will we get skipped in games where our turns will expire once GMR is restored, you think?

I didn't get any emails this morning telling me it is my turn, which is surprising because I am in 8 games. I'm guessing this means someone else in my games can't make their moves, so it will be someone that gets skipped not me.

https://twitter.com/gmrobot

Yea, I'm hoping they revert all the turns. I have probably a dozen that have been skipped by now.

More importantly, I hope their system didn't take any severe damage. It sounds like a big deal.

We will have problems more serious than skipped turns (we will be able to upload save games from archive folder, so it is not a catastrophe):

https://www.facebook.com/MultiplayerRobot
As many of you have noticed GMR is completely down! Our web server has experienced a rare double-disk failure and we'll need to rebuild everything from scratch. We do have off-site backups of the database and save files that we'll be restoring, unfortunately they're almost two months old. We're terribly sorry for the inconvenience and how much this will set your games back!

We're working hard getting everything back up and hope to have things restored by tonight or tomorrow. Thank you all for your patience!

Two months?? Fuck that I may as well restart all my games.

You won't have to restart your games, you can find your previously uploaded save files (if uploaded by the GMR desktop client) in Documents\My Games\Sid Meier's Civilization 5\Saves\hotseat\GMR Archive.

Of course I am sure there will be cases where all players in a game used the website (Mac users can't use GMR desktop client) to upload save files, and do not have any manually backed up save files, or used desktop client but then went ahead and deleted everything in the GMR archive folder or unchecked the archive option in the GRM desktop client settings. I hope these will be only a small number of games.

EDIT: Of course any games that are created after the "restore point" GMR admins use, will have to be re-created first, then save files from archives can be uploaded to be able to continue from where the game was. In addition, GMR admins mentioned on facebook that they are looking into a possible way to use save files to create a game, so that the games that are in this category may not have to be re-created by players manually.

Ayu is right, just don't panick. It's very unlikely that nobody in your games ever uses the GMR client, therefore your games can be restored any turn back up to the latest. Of course, the process might be tedious if you're the one restoring them all, but that should be the tasks of the hosts of each games, or whenever possible, of the last person to play their turns to set nobody backwards.

Oh that's great to hear thanks.

Any idea when GMR will be up again?

Great news: GMR is up!

EDIT: I guess everyone is trying to reach the site at the same time, it is really slow and I am seeing messages like "waiting for available socket" when waiting for the page to load.

It is not that important, but apparently all the messages and comments from the last 2 months are also lost :(

Is anyone getting prompted to install an updated client? I'm getting "unable to install or run the application. The application requires that assembly System.Net.Http.Formatting Version 4.0.0.0 be installed in the Global Assembly Cache (GAC) first.